Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: >> > >> And dynamic spinup of servers to handle increased load is a use case for >> systemd's rapid bootup. They go hand-in-hand. > > Don't know about your servers, but ours take much, much longer for > their boot-time memory and hardware tests and initialization than > anything the old style sysvinit scripts do. > Ours would, but we disabled the POST-time memory checks on most. When you've got upwards of 64GB, it starts to take a while... and for 256G... let's not go there, unless you've got 15 min. mark